Arvind Venkataramani
UX / Design Research in San Francisco, he/him/they
About
Making you think
Side Projects
Democratizing people's ability to design rituals for individual and collective wellbeing
Work Experience
Building and running the research function
Built a research engagement model & roadmap for the cloud platform org, uncovered major adoption barriers for product-led growth, identifying opportunities resulting in roadmap updates across multiple product orgs.
Led a team of senior and junior researchers doing strategic and tactical research worldwide, for Fortune 100 clients across a variety of verticals. Proactively improved the team’s process, practice, and culture.
Co-designed and taught a course on how to empirically frame innovation challenges using systems thinking
Carried out in strategic, exploratory, and evaluative research both domestically and internationally, using a mix of ethnographic, participatory design, RITE/usability, and survey methodologies.